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...CFIA staff members, program director Joseph S. Nye and secretary Lawrence S. Finkelstein, came out briefly to distribute a new statement of CFIA policy on debates. The statement repeated the Center's refusal to take part in "an SDS-managed forum... a rigged mock trial," but said that the CFIA would debate SDS in a program with "an impartial moderator...
Laurence S. Finkelstein, secretary of the CFIA, said yesterday that no private files were destroyed...
...Tuesday afternoon, a CFIA librarian saw two suspicious-looking girls. After they left, she found a small metal box which she thought might have contained a bomb. Through the intercom, she tried to phone CFIA secretary Lawrence S. Finkelstein. The message passed through three secretaries and the "small metal box" part of the message never reached...
Royal-Flush Odds. Even random selection techniques fail when the lists are unfairly drawn to begin with. In a recent New York case, for example, Attorney Michael Finkelstein produced evidence showing that a federal grand jury list included only 1.1 of every 10,000 voters in Harlem, compared with 62.6 of every 10,000 voters from the city's fashionable and predominantly white East Side. A statistician testified that the chances of obtaining that disparity in a random selection were smaller than the probability of a poker player being dealt 24 consecutive royal flushes in a fair game...
...Christian flavor of the services was maintained even during the visit two Sundays ago of Rabbi Finkelstein and a number of Jewish guests. Though Finkelstein intoned a Jewish hymn, Adon Olam, at the end of the service, the Lutheran guest choir sang a traditional doxology, Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow-a hymn that specifically glorifies the Trinity. Although some eyebrows were raised, Nixon aides explained that this particular hymn was always part of the services, and Rabbi Finkelstein confirmed that he had been informed of it in advance. Finkelstein acknowledged that he "did not exactly jump...